Raspberry Pi is now a public company (techcrunch.com)
Raspberry Pi priced its IPO on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday morning at £2.80 per share, valuing it at £542 million, or $690 million.
The mystery of an alleged data broker’s data breach (techcrunch.com)
The breached data appears partly legitimate — if imperfect — but also widely available for sale by data brokers.
Apple confirms plans to work with Google's Gemini 'in the future' (techcrunch.com)
“We’re looking forward to doing integrations with other models, including Google Gemini, for instance, in the future," Federighi said during WWDC 2024.
Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over Apple's ChatGPT integrations (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk's posts seem to misunderstand the relationship Apple announced with OpenAI at WWDC 2024.
LinkedIn to limit targeted ads in EU after complaint over sensitive data use (techcrunch.com)
LinkedIn will no longer allow advertisers to target users based on data gleaned from their participation in LinkedIn Groups.
Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms (techcrunch.com)
Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms of service. Among the changes: Adobe now says it has the right to access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods.”...
A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts....
Google acquires Cameyo to bring Windows apps to ChromeOS (techcrunch.com)
Google has acquired Cameyo, a company developing virtualization tools to run Windows apps on ChromeOS devices.
Amazon buys Indian video streaming service MX Player (techcrunch.com)
Amazon has agreed to acquire key assets of Indian video streaming service MX Player from the local media powerhouse Times Internet, the latest step by the Amazon has agreed to acquire the Indian video streaming service MX Player from the local media powerhouse Times Internet.
Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools' use of 365 Education suite (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft's education-focused flavor of its cloud productivity suite, Microsoft 365 Education, is facing investigation in the European Union.
TikTok acknowledges exploit targeting high-profile accounts (techcrunch.com)
The malicious attack appears to have involved malware transmitted through TikTok's DMs.
You can now customize your For You feed on Threads using swipes (techcrunch.com)
Instagram Threads is rolling out the ability for users to signal which sort of posts they wanted to see more or less of by swiping.
X tweaks rules to formally allow adult content (techcrunch.com)
X will now allow users to post consensually produced NSFW content as long as it is prominently labeled as such.
Spotify to increase premium pricing in the US to $11.99 per month (techcrunch.com)
Spotify has announced that it's hiking subscriptions for new customers in the U.S., the second such price increase in the space of a year.
Binit is bringing AI to trash (techcrunch.com)
Early attempts at making dedicated hardware to house artificial intelligence smarts have been criticized as, well, a bit rubbish. But here’s an AI gadget-in-the-making that’s all about rubbish, literally: Finnish startup Binit is applying large language models’ (LLMs) image processing capabilities to tracking household...
President Biden vetoes crypto custody bill (techcrunch.com)
President Joe Biden has vetoed H.J.Res. 109, a congressional resolution that would have overturned the Securities and Exchange Commission's current
Stripe curbs its India ambitions over regulatory situation (techcrunch.com)
Stripe, the world's most valuable fintech startup, said on Friday that it will temporarily move to an invite-only model for new account sign-ups in India, Stripe is temporarily moving to an invite-only model for new account sign-ups in India.
Chinese e-commerce marketplace Temu faces stricter EU rules as a 'very large online platform' (techcrunch.com)
Temu is to face Europe's strictest rules after being designated as a "very large online platform" under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Spain bans Meta from launching election features on Facebook, Instagram over privacy fears (techcrunch.com)
Meta has been banned from launching features on Facebook and Instagram that would have collected data on voters in Spain using the social networks ahead of next month’s European Elections.
Google admits its AI Overviews need work, but we're all helping it beta test (techcrunch.com)
Google is embarrassed about its AI Overviews, too. After a deluge of dunks and memes over the past week, which cracked on the poor quality and outright
Hugging Face says it detected 'unauthorized access' to its AI model hosting platform | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
AI startup Hugging Face says that it detected a possible breach of its platform for hosting AI models, data sets and more.
Amazon gets FAA approval to expand US drone deliveries (techcrunch.com)
Amazon has received approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly its delivery drones longer distances.
With the EU AI Act incoming this summer, the bloc lays out its plan for AI governance (techcrunch.com)
The European Union has taken the wraps off the structure of the new AI Office, the ecosystem-building and oversight body that's being established under
Spotify hikes subscription price in France by 1.2% to match new music-streaming tax (techcrunch.com)
Spotify has hiked its premium subscription in France by an eye-watering €0.13, in response to a new music-streaming tax.